She is one the most powerful women in the Indian film industry. She changed the way Indians look at their TV screens today. Filmmaker and a woman of substance, Ekta Kapoor has turned 43 today.

For an entire generation of 90s, Ekta Kapoor curated memories that live forever. Surprisingly or shockingly, the small screen world is the only field of work where women rule. And most of this came from characters that Ekta offered to the audience from her shows. Parvati, Tulsi, Kusum, Kashish, Prerna, Gauri, Bani and whatever more names you can recall, her TV shows gave women who were just not sublime and sensitive, but equally powerful and mindful. In a strange way, Ekta made us believe that a woman has all the powers to break or mend relationships, to sacrifice or even snatch away, if the need be, things for her family, or sometimes, for just herself.

Her belief in making characters and serving content which talk about relevant things in a language that masses could understand, keep her going, she says. For one Naagin she makes, she says she backs content like Udta Punjab and Lipstick Under My Burkha, something which have all the risk factors of being unconventional. Even when she makes an out and out commercial entertainers like The Dirty Picture or Veere Di Wedding, Ekta says she's happy to be supporting something most part of the world believes will fail. And that's the catch about her -- sticking to her conviction even when the rest have turned their backs.

You may hate her or love her, sometimes for her flawed definitions of feminism, some other times for bringing naagins and witches to your homes, but, you can't ever seem to ignore her. May be that's why she's a celebrated woman. A woman who is ruling the telly world since most of you can trace back to. A woman who is perfectly and acceptably courageous to believe in both her flaws and strengths.

To a woman who, through her work, has been trying to make others understand the powers and struggles of a woman, a very happy birthday!